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Post by imaginaryfriend on Nov 15, 2019 8:04:36 GMT
Hey look, Coyote just trolled Ysengrin "Loup" a little bit. [edit] Hmm, looks like my title for this thread got truncated.[/edit] |
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Post by madjack on Nov 15, 2019 8:07:16 GMT
Edit the subject field?
Anywho, cookies to those who called the humility lesson.
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Nov 15, 2019 8:11:34 GMT
I guess the takeaway for today's comic is that now there's a reason for "Loup" to want to get Ys cut out of him. Yeah it worked the second time around. I've seen proboards truncate links but not titles. Until now. |
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Post by madjack on Nov 15, 2019 8:26:39 GMT
Yeah it worked the second time around. I've seen proboards truncate links but not titles. Until now. I swear there's a timer attached to accounts where the longer you've been registered on a board the less it seems to care, I never used to have any issues at all when I first signed up a year or so ago then they started slowly creeping in. |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Nov 15, 2019 8:59:13 GMT
I didn't like them from day one because of their business model but the truncated links and empty and/or bizarre search engine results didn't crop up until a couple years later.
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Post by theonethatgotaway on Nov 15, 2019 9:06:25 GMT
I guess the takeaway for today's comic is that now there's a reason for "Loup" to want to get Ys cut out of him. I was thinking the exact same thing: Loup:"Well, if that's the case, I'll just get Ysengrin back out of me! Girls! Do you happen to have a weapon that could do that?" Annies:"well....." *one short dental appointment with Tooth later* Coyote:"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, THAT WAS FUN, I NEVER EXPECTED YOU TO BE SO PATHETIC, YSENGRIN!!" Ysengrin: /lies crying and trembling in a corner, getting pets from two Annies. |
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Post by pyradonis on Nov 15, 2019 10:30:11 GMT
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Post by alevice on Nov 15, 2019 13:33:48 GMT
Anywho, cookies to those who called the humility lesson. Somehow I was right! I didn't expect this |
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Post by ctso74 on Nov 15, 2019 14:26:18 GMT
I guess the takeaway for today's comic is that now there's a reason for "Loup" to want to get Ys cut out of him. I was thinking the exact same thing: Loup:"Well, if that's the case, I'll just get Ysengrin back out of me! Girls! Do you happen to have a weapon that could do that?" Annies:"well....." *one short dental appointment with Tooth later* Coyote:"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, THAT WAS FUN, I NEVER EXPECTED YOU TO BE SO PATHETIC, YSENGRIN!!" Ysengrin: /lies crying and trembling in a corner, getting pets from two Annies. Do we know if Loup has the level of humility, to admit he needs to do that? He may proclaim Coyote's a trickster, and he(Loup) was right all along, and keep barreling towards the Water. Which makes me wonder, if Tom partially based Loup on any politicians. Though, that might give Coyote the knowledge of death, as splitting Ysengrin away might kill Loup, leaving Coyote with the memory of dying?... |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Nov 15, 2019 14:58:44 GMT
Do we know if Loup has the level of humility, to admit he needs to do that? He may proclaim Coyote's a trickster, and he(Loup) was right all along, and keep barreling towards the Water. Very possible. In that case, where the Antimonies fail to persuade him a Ysectomy is the correct treatment, I suppose one of the twins may have to accept his offer to live inside his jaws (so as to gain access to Ysengrin). Though, that might give Coyote the knowledge of death, as splitting Ysengrin away might kill Loup, leaving Coyote with the memory of dying?... Maybe but that would be the experience of what death is like when "Loup" dies and I am not sure that would be interesting for Coyote.* Either way it should give Coyote the experience of what it's like to spring back to life after being a really dead Coyote. *I think the bit of himself Coyote left to expsosit and observe can also observe the ether (as appears to be taking place in #2223) and now has the picture of what a "dead" Coyote means and "feels" like since this Coyote isn't really Coyote yet. |
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Post by DonDueed on Nov 15, 2019 15:02:47 GMT
I love the visual metaphor of the unstable forest as trees falling to neatly-sawn pieces. But I'm intrigued by the instance in the upper-right corner. Is that just a trunk that's cut away from its roots? Or is it a wooden claw? A totem for Ysengrin, perhaps?
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Post by Gemini Jim on Nov 15, 2019 17:09:28 GMT
Very possible. In that case, where the Antimonies fail to persuade him a Ysectomy is the correct treatment, I suppose one of the twins may have to accept his offer to live inside his jaws (so as to gain access to Ysengrin). I'm quoting this just because I love the word "Ysectomy."  The Ysengrin side of Loup seems to be emerging more with Coyote (the Ghost of Coyote? the Spirit of? the Essence of?) around. I suppose Coyote needs a straight man (straight wolf) to bounce off, and there's also Odd Couple Syndrome - they can't both be Joker-level crazy; and nobody can be more Coyote-ish than Coyote himself. It's also possible that this is foreshadowing Ysengrin separating himself out from Loup, or Loup becoming more and more Ysengrin, until Loup is nothing but Ysengrin. |
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Post by jda on Nov 15, 2019 21:50:53 GMT
"however, if you were to absorb a more controlled tempered creature, yet inherently Etheric and Wild enough to live inside of you, one that settles Old Yse's nerves because they love each other... Say, don't you happen to have a spare Fire elemental -BrokenMan descendant laying around, do you?"
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Post by jda on Nov 15, 2019 21:57:47 GMT
Hey, any psychology resident in the house?
If you had to name/identify the current interchange as a therapy, or in the mind exploring field, what would you say about it?
For example, was the GooseBone(TM) a psychoactive drug, and Loup is having a dissociative episode?
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Post by Elysium on Nov 16, 2019 16:44:02 GMT
As they say: the drawbacks of both and the advantages of neither.
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Post by pyradonis on Nov 16, 2019 17:36:16 GMT
I love the visual metaphor of the unstable forest as trees falling to neatly-sawn pieces. But I'm intrigued by the instance in the upper-right corner. Is that just a trunk that's cut away from its roots? Or is it a wooden claw? A totem for Ysengrin, perhaps? I think it is a trunk with cut roots (compare the trunk with roots attached near Loup's nose), but I like your visual image! |
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Post by DonDueed on Nov 16, 2019 21:45:34 GMT
I love the visual metaphor of the unstable forest as trees falling to neatly-sawn pieces. But I'm intrigued by the instance in the upper-right corner. Is that just a trunk that's cut away from its roots? Or is it a wooden claw? A totem for Ysengrin, perhaps? I think it is a trunk with cut roots (compare the trunk with roots attached near Loup's nose), but I like your visual image! Possibly, but your example could also be interpreted as the upper part of the trunk spreading out into the canopy, like the one at the lower right.
The more I look at the upper right, the odder it seems. It's almost like a symbol of Loup's surprise and anger, a modification of the common comic symbol of three lines radiating above a character's head. Whether Tom intended it that way or not, it gives me that impression.
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Post by pyradonis on Nov 16, 2019 22:55:08 GMT
I think it is a trunk with cut roots (compare the trunk with roots attached near Loup's nose), but I like your visual image! Possibly, but your example could also be interpreted as the upper part of the trunk spreading out into the canopy, like the one at the lower right.
The more I look at the upper right, the odder it seems. It's almost like a symbol of Loup's surprise and anger, a modification of the common comic symbol of three lines radiating above a character's head. Whether Tom intended it that way or not, it gives me that impression.
Huh, right, I had not noticed that other one. Indeed, it could also be this way around...or Tom deliberately drew the tree trunks in way that upper and lower side cannot be differentiated. Who knows. |
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Post by migrantworker on Nov 17, 2019 9:59:49 GMT
"however, if you were to absorb a more controlled tempered creature, yet inherently Etheric and Wild enough to live inside of you, one that settles Old Yse's nerves because they love each other... Say, don't you happen to have a spare Fire elemental -BrokenMan descendant laying around, do you?" From a storytelling point of view, this would be a perfect solution: wrapping up two major story arcs at the same time and providing a source of tension to move the action forward. It would look almost... wasted if it were to happen at the current point in the comic, rather than say at the end of book 8 or 9. |
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